Car Dealer Offers Carbon Offsets; First 400 Sales Get $70 Credit

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Date

Jan. 8, 2008

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Media Highlight

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Washington Times

Carolyn Fischer is quoted on one of the challenges of carbon offset programs: the fact that consumers are offered an array of products but aren't sure exactly what they are buying.

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Carolyn Fischer

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Carolyn Fischer is a senior fellow at RFF. Fischer's research explores questions of environmental policy instrument design.

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